Australian Artists E-K
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# 47231
HEYWARD, Michael
Bill Henson (dustjacket design with face of a girl)
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2017. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 75, illustrated. New copy of an out of print title, in mint condition, purchased new from the NGV at the time of publication. The standard edition, printed with three variant dustjacket illustrations in equal numbers (marble sculpture, face of a girl and a …
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# 47183
[FRANK, Dale]
Dale Frank : Adieu
Melbourne : Deutscher Brunswick Street, 1990. Quarto, gold wrappers with green lettering, pp 53. Illustrates all 21 works exhibited in colour.
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# 47043
Sydney Ure Smith
Art in Australia (complete set)
Art in Australia. Series 1, No. 1 – Series 4, No. 6 (1916 – 1942). Completes set. Series 1 (11 issues, quarto), Series 2 (2 issues, large quarto), Series 3 (80 issues, quarto), Series 4 (6 issues, large quarto). Illustrated wrappers, occasional chipping and flecking, extensively illustrated, tipped-in plates, a very good set. The most …
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# 46886
HAMER, Heather (1885 - 1962)
Old Sinhalese nursery rhymes and folk songs
Collected and illustrated by Heather Hamer. With a Foreword by Sir Solomon Dias Bandaranaike, K.C.M.G. Ceylon : The Colombo Apothecaries Co., Ltd., 1935. Quarto, gilt-lettered diced road, lightly scuffed and worn, pp. [36], illustrated with twelve full page black and white illustrations by Hamer, with tissue guards, illustrating in modernist style the nursery rhymes. Heather …
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# 47056
HINDS, John (1950 - )
The English Suite : a new catalogue of nostalgic wallpapers designed for the Antipodes
Melbourne : the artist, 2012. Elephant folio (580 mm tall), lettered cloth, title page, preface, 14 leaves of designs stencilled in colour, which reference traditional English patterns and iconography, but have been re-designed to reflect a contemporary theme or topic, ostensibly as prototypes for wallpapers for distribution in the Antipodes. A printed sheet of notes …
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# 47129
ZUBANS, Ruth
E. Phillips Fox : his life and art
Melbourne : Miegunyah Press, 1995. Quarto, cloth in dustjacket, pp. 243, illustrated, pale foxing to preliminaries, a very good copy. Printed in an edition of 1000 copies. A fine monograph on Emanuel Phillips Fox, husband of Ethel Carrick Fox.
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# 47072
HABY, Gracia and JENNISON, Louise [Gracia & Louise]
Those two daring pirates
[Melbourne] : the artists, 2004. Artist’s book, 180 mm tall, 22 page concertina offset lithograph with original hand colouring, bound in coloured fabric, initialled by the artists. Printed in an edition of 30 copies with one artist’s proof, this is copy 13/30. A colourful celebration of the cultural life of New Orleans, Louisiana. “[These two …
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# 47071
[KNGWARREYE]. NEALE, Margo, ELLWOOD, Tony, NISHINO, Hanako, et al.
Emily Kame Kngwarreye : utopia: the genius of Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Canberra, Australia and Japan : National Museum of Australia/ The National Museum of Art, Osaka/ The National Art Centre, Tokyo/ The Yomiuri Shimbun, 2008. Quarto, boards in pictorial dust jacket, very lightly rubbed, pp. 256, illustrated throughout in colour, exhibition catalogue in English and Japanese language for the travelling exhibition of Australian Indigenous artist Emily …
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# 47049
HICKS, Petrina; CROMBIE, Isobel; QUIRK, Maria
Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic
Melbourne : National Gallery of Victoria, 2019. Quarto, boards in dustjacket, pp. 144, illustrated. Fine copy. Petrina Hicks: Bleached Gothic is the first in-depth study of the work of Australian artist Petrina Hicks. Since 2003, Hicks has developed a highly distinctive body of work that combines her background as a commercial photographer with her interest …
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# 47045
Sydney Ure Smith.
Art in Australia. A quarterly magazine. Third series, number sixty-six.
Edited by Sydney Ure Smith & Leon Gellert. Sydney : Art in Australia, 1937. Octavo, pictorial card wrappers with Margaret Preston design, 88pp, illustrated with tipped-in colour plates, plus b/w plates, very clean internally, a fine copy. Features articles on Arthur Streeton’s recent works, the Archibald Competition, Mary Edwards. Also includes colour and black and …
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# 46913
CALABY, John (editor)
The Hunter sketchbook : birds & flowers of New South Wales drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90
By Captain John Hunter RN of the First Fleet ; general editor John Calaby. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1988. Quarto, illustrated cards, pp. [viii], 251, illustrated with exquisite paintings recording the fauna and flora around Sydney and on Norfolk Island.
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# 47022
HENSON, Bill (b. 1955)
Lux et nox (first edition)
Zurich : Scalo, 2002. First edition. Extended oblong folio (430mm wide), cloth in illustrated dust jacket, light handling marks, 175 pp. of Henson’s ethereal photography. This is the first edition, printed in Germany. It was then reprinted in Melbourne in 2008. Invitation card and ephemera enclosed.
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# 47014
JERREMS, Carol (1949 - 1980); FRASER, Virginia (1947 - 2021)
A book about Australian women
Photographs by Carol Jerrems. Text edited by Virginia Fraser. Melbourne : Outback Press, 1974. Quarto, illustrated wrappers (a few light creases and lightly marked), pp. 141; [3], illustrated in black and white, light foxing to preliminaries, contemporary small gift inscription dated 1974, a very good copy. Design and layout of the photographic pages by Carol …
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# 47006
HURLEY, Frank
Hurley’s Australia : myth, dream, reality
Selected and introduced by John Thompson. Canberra : National Library of Australia, 1999. Quarto, illustrated boards, pp. ix, 85, illustrated.
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# 46983
BAIL, Murray
Fairweather
Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2009. Quarto, plum cloth boards in dustjacket, light edge wear and a little canted, 280 pp, illustrated, a very good copy. Revised and expanded edition of Murray Bail’s definitive work on the life and art of Ian Fairweather. Scarce in the market.
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# 46542
JACKS, Robert (1943 - 2014)
VII (Sculptural lithograph)
Lithograph, 18 x 23 cms, signed lower right ‘Jacks 87 – 89’, numbered lower left 2/10, and titled lower centre ‘VII’, framed in black timber (43 x 46 cms). A fine original graphic by the great Australian abstract artist Robert Jacks, sourced directly from the artist’s estate. In 2014 the National Gallery of Victoria staged …